[Update: Part 2 is here] Re: Greg’s most recent post on the term “avant-garde”—I’ve already discussed this somewhat here, here and here, but to recap: The term’s early 19th-century Socialist origins have mostly been forgotten. And that’s fine—language changes—but, personally, I find it deliciously perverse that the original Avant-Gardists, the Impressionists, essentially stole the term [...]
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Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Afrikaa Bambaataa, avant-garde, Brian Eno, Can, Count Machuki, Crash Course In Science, DJ Kool Herc, Greg Gerke, Impressionism, King Tubby, Klaus Nomi, Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Minimalism, New Wave, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Socialism, Talking Heads, The Alan Parsons Project, Toni Basil, Wendy Carlos on January 2, 2011 | 23 Comments »
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